Back to School is the second installment of Time for School, the multi-year project launched in 2003 when Wide Angle profiled seven children in seven countries – Afghanistan, Benin, Brazil, India, Japan, Kenya, and Romania – starting their first year of school, often despite great odds. Returning in 2006, we find that some are already hanging onto their enrollment by a thread.
For more information on the PBS "Wide Angle" documentary, "Back to School," click here.
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Excerpted from the kenyahelpkenya site at the end:
Kenya Help: Building a High School for Girls in Kenya
"You don't need me to come here to teach math. What you need is for me to go home to raise money for the girls' high school". Those were the words, spoken in September 2005, by Margo McAuliffe, retired high school math teacher from Menlo Park, California. Thus began the journey from a bare plot of ground in Naivasha, Kenya to the opening of St Francis Xavier Girls Secondary School (or just St. Francis Girls) to the first class of students in February 2007.
Fr. Daniel Kiriti dreamed of a school for the girls of his Naivasha parish, be they Catholic or not. He wanted a school for the bright but poor girls whose only hope was a secondary education. Its mission would be to empower young women, to build their self-confidence and instill a sense of owning their destiny and that of their community and their country.
For more info on Margo McAuliffe's Kenyan girls school project, go to kenyahelpkenya.org.
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